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And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart exulteth in Jehovah, my horn is lifted up in Jehovah; my mouth is opened wide over mine enemies; for I rejoice in thy salvation.
2:2
Waiting
There is none holy as Jehovah, for there is none beside thee, neither is there any rock like our God.
2:3
Waiting
Do not multiply your words of pride, let not vain-glory come out of your mouth; For Jehovah is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
2:4
Waiting
The bow of the mighty is broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.
2:5
Waiting
They that were full have hired themselves out for bread; and the hungry are [so] no more: Even the barren beareth seven, and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.
2:6
Waiting
Jehovah killeth, and maketh alive; he bringeth down to Sheol, and bringeth up.
2:7
Waiting
Jehovah maketh poor, and maketh rich, he bringeth low, also he lifteth up:
2:8
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He raiseth up the poor out of the dust; from the dung-hill he lifteth up the needy, To set [him] among nobles; and he maketh them inherit a throne of glory; For the pillars of the earth are Jehovah's, and he hath set the world upon them.
2:9
Waiting
He keepeth the feet of his saints, but the wicked are silenced in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.
2:10
Waiting
They that strive with Jehovah shall be broken to pieces; in the heavens will he thunder upon them. Jehovah will judge the ends of the earth; and he will give strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.
2:11
Waiting
And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the boy ministered to Jehovah in the presence of Eli the priest.
2:12
Waiting
Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not Jehovah.
2:13
Waiting
And the priests' custom with the people was, when any man sacrificed a sacrifice, the priest's servant came, when the flesh was cooked, with a flesh-hook of three prongs in his hand;
2:14
Waiting
and he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or cauldron, or pot; the priest took of it all that the flesh-hook brought up. So they did in Shiloh to all the Israelites that came there.
2:15
Waiting
Even before they burned the fat, the priest's servant came, and said to the man that sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest, and he will not accept sodden flesh of thee, but raw.
2:16
Waiting
If the man said to him, They will immediately burn the fat entire, then take as thy soul desires; he would say [to him], No, but thou shalt give [it] now; and if not, I will take [it] by force.
2:17
Waiting
And the sin of the young men was very great before Jehovah, for men despised the offering of Jehovah.
2:18
Waiting
And Samuel ministered before Jehovah, a boy girded with a linen ephod.
2:19
Waiting
And his mother made him a little coat, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to sacrifice the yearly sacrifice.
2:20
Waiting
And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, Jehovah give thee seed of this woman for the loan which is lent to Jehovah. And they went to their own home.
2:21
Waiting
So Jehovah visited Hannah, and she conceived, and bore three sons and two daughters. And the boy Samuel grew before Jehovah.
2:22
Waiting
And Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons were doing to all Israel, and that they lay with the women that served at the entrance of the tent of meeting.
2:23
Waiting
And he said to them, Why do ye such things? for I hear of your evil deeds from all this people.
2:24
Waiting
No, my sons, for it is no good report that I hear: ye make Jehovah's people transgress.
2:25
Waiting
If one man sin against another, God will judge him; but if a man sin against Jehovah, who shall intreat for him? But they hearkened not to the voice of their father, for Jehovah was minded to slay them.
2:26
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And the boy Samuel grew on, and was in favour both with Jehovah and also with men.
2:27
Waiting
And there came a man of God to Eli and said to him, Thus saith Jehovah: Did I plainly reveal myself to the house of thy father when they were in Egypt, in Pharaoh's house,
2:28
Waiting
and choose him out of all the tribes of Israel, to be my priest, to offer upon mine altar, to burn incense, to wear the ephod before me? and I gave unto the house of thy father all the offerings by fire of the children of Israel.
2:29
Waiting
Wherefore do ye trample upon my sacrifice and upon mine oblation which I have commanded [in my] habitation? And thou honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the primest of all the oblations of Israel my people.
2:30
Waiting
Wherefore Jehovah the God of Israel saith, I said indeed, Thy house and the house of thy father should walk before me for ever. But now Jehovah saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
2:31
Waiting
Behold, days come, that I will cut off thine arm, and the arm of thy father's house, that there shall not be an old man in thy house.
2:32
Waiting
And thou shalt see an oppressor [in my] habitation, amidst all the good that shall be done to Israel; and there shall not be an old man in thy house for ever.
2:33
Waiting
And the man of thine [whom] I shall not cut off from mine altar, shall be to cause thine eyes to fail and to grieve thy soul; and all the increase of thy house shall die in their vigour.
2:34
Waiting
And this shall be the sign to thee, which shall come upon thy two sons, upon Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they shall die, both of them.
2:35
Waiting
And I will raise up for myself a faithful priest, [who] shall do according to what is in my heart and in my mind; and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before mine anointed continually.
2:36
Waiting
And it shall come to pass [that] every one that is left of thy house shall come to crouch to him for a small piece of silver and for a cake of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priestly offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread.